"Gif" or "Jif?" Breaking Down America's Digital Dialects

"Day-tuh," or "dah-tuh?" "Flash drive" or "thumb drive?"

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Do you pronounce data as "day-tuh," or "dah-tuh?" Do you say "flash drive" or "thumb drive?" Are you the one who's been saying "wiffy" instead of "Wi-fi?"

The folks at Ebay Deals wanted to know how Americans pronounce common technological terms. So they surveyed more than 1000 Americans from age 18 to 45 and asked them to explain how they pronounce common terms of digital life. The team started by giving out a group of questions to 200 participants. After narrowing it down to the most popular three to four terms or pronunciations for each item, they then polled the entire crowd to see which word was the most widely used.

Here are some surprising, and not so surprising results of the study:

• 83 percent of participants use the phrase "Google it" compared to only about 10 percent said "search it". That 10 percent is made up of Yahoo users and my dad.